Light in the darkness – Lent walks 2016 Over the last few weeks as part of Sunday@thepub we have been doing our lent walks, this has been our third year. The last couple of years we have walked the coastal route from North Shields to Seaton Sluice. As part of this we have had oppertunities to pause and reflect along …
BeachcomberFX Weekend Away 2016
In the past I have led lots of weekends away for young people. They were always memorable times of building faith and encouraging friendships, as well as being loads of fun! I have just come back from a rather different weekend away with a great bunch of folk who are part of several groups of people with whom my wife …
What Makes us Human?
I came across this great audio from Nev Wilshire the guy from the Call Centre programs, I heard him do a little bit of it on the Chris Evans show, and then a mate passed me the full essay and the conversation on the Jeremy Vine show on ‘What makes us human’ … check it out here Hope you enjoy it! …
Lent Pilgrimages 2015
This year our Lent Pilgrimage will take the same format as before as we walk the coast from North Shields to Seaton Sluice each week during lent. The dates, times and details are set out below. It’s not just about walking, every so often on our wander we will pause for a short reflection or a bit of local history. Please feel …
#NoWorldCupFantasy
All eyes are beginning to drift towards Brazil for the Fifa World Cup and as they do so many of us football addicts really do believe the sentiments behind this quote from Bill Shankly: ‘Someone said to me ‘To you football is a matter of life or death!’ and I said ‘Listen, it’s more important than that’.’ Bill Shakily But is it? …
Change
After returning from our latest lent pilgrimage, we walked from Seaton Sluice to North Shields in the damp and fog… it sounds worse than it was! It was actually quite a beautiful experience, as we have wandered over the last few weeks we have picked up various things, today we looked at various large stones that were resting in the …





